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δωδεκάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωδεκάς δωδεκάδος

Structure: δωδεκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the number twelve

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δωδεκάς δωδεκάδε δωδεκάδες
Genitive δωδεκάδος δωδεκάδοιν δωδεκάδων
Dative δωδεκάδι δωδεκάδοιν δωδεκάσιν*
Accusative δωδεκάδα δωδεκάδε δωδεκάδας
Vocative δωδεκά δωδεκάδε δωδεκάδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • βουλὴν δὲ εἶναι μὲν τριάκοντα δωδεκάδασ ‐ ἑξήκοντα δὲ καὶ τριακόσιοι γίγνοιντο ἂν πρέποντεσ ταῖσ διανομαῖσ ‐ μέρη δὲ διανείμαντασ τέτταρα κατὰ ἐνενήκοντα τὸν ἀριθμὸν τούτων, ἐξ ἑκάστου τῶν τιμημάτων φέρειν ἐνενήκοντα βουλευτάσ. (Plato, Laws, book 6 36:1)
  • τήν τε δωδεκάδα τῶν λίθων εἴτε τοὺσ μῆνάσ τισ θέλοι νοεῖν, εἴτε τὸν οὕτωσ [ἀριθμὸν τῶν] ἀστέρων, ὃν ζωδιακὸν κύκλον Ἕλληνεσ καλοῦσι, τῆσ κατ’ ἐκεῖνο γνώμησ οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 231:1)

Synonyms

  1. the number twelve

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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